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[7] They also slew Autolycus,1 an outspoken man, and, in a word, selected2 the most respectable citizens. So far did their wasting of the city go that more than half of the Athenians took to flight.

1 A pancratiast (boxer and wrestler) whom Xenophon makes the chief character in his Symposium. See Plut. Lys. 15.

2 As victims.

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